RESIDENTS and businesses on Cross Street who have seen cracks opening up in their properties have welcomed promises from contractors to repair their homes.

At a meeting on Friday, the developer of the Regent Circus complex, Ashfield Land, and contractors ISG, met worried people after a number of houses around Cross Street reported worrying cracks appearing.

The Rehoboth Strict Baptist Chapel on nearby Prospect Hill has already had to close after engineers deemed it unsafe.

After concerns that it may never reopen, they have now been told it will be secured within 12 months.